Rebecca Aloisio + Mitch Goldstein: RABBET
School of Design faculty Rebecca Aloisio and Mitch Goldstein have been collaborating as educators and creative practitioners for over a decade. Shared concepts, structures, formal elements, and techniques come together in a two-person exhibition, "RABBET," allowing new interpretations to emerge. Both artists employ hybrid-collage methods to make unique works in painting, printing, sculpture and installation.
The exhibition is on view Aug. 22-Sept. 22 at RIT City Art Space. A gallery talk and reception is scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, at RIT City Art Space (280 East Main St., Sibley Tower, first floor, Rochester 14604). A free bus will shuttle students from campus to downtown and back the night of the gallery talk and reception.
The title of this exhibition comes from the woodworking term rabbet, which is a step-shaped recess cut along the edge of a piece of wood, typically forming a match to another piece in order to join them together. The concept of a rabbet — or the joining of two discrete elements — relates both literally and conceptually to the work shown in this exhibition. Both Aloisio's and Goldstein's practices explore methodologies of joinery: through collage, appropriation, and assemblage.
Aloisio's work centers on fabrication and simulation, using painting, collage, sculpture and printing. Pairing modern technologies with hand-generated images, flat and spatial elements, the resulting work creates a visual tension of colors, patterns, and composition that are neither real, nor invented. Aloisio is currently a senior lecturer at RIT's College of Art and Design.
Goldstein approaches his work at the intersections of anxiety and calm, chaos and clarity. His sculptures are often a collision of disparate materials sitting in an aggressive synthesis with each other. Goldstein is the author of How to Be a Design Student (Princeton University Press) and associate professor in RIT's College of Art and Design.
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Open to the Public
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No